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ANDALUSIAN QUAIL. 
ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE. GIBRALTAR QUAIL. ANDALUSIAN 
TURNIX. THREE-TOED QUAIL? 
Hemipodius tachydromus, GOULD. 
gs Junatus, TEMMINCK. 
Perdix Gibraltarica, LATHAM. 
Turni« tuchydroma, MEYER. 
Hemipodius. Hemipodion—A half-foot. Hemi—Half. 
Pous. Podos—A foot. Tachydromus—Fast-running. Tachus— 
Quick. Dromeus—A runner, ~ 
Tris Quail is found in North Africa, from Barbary to 
Tripoli; it also occurs in Europe in various parts of the south 
of Spain, and in Sicily and Italy. 3 
The ‘Annals of Natural History,’ in the fourteenth volume, 
record the occurrence of an individual of this species, a male, 
which was shot on the 2th. af Octaber, 1844, at Cornwell, 
near Chipping Nortou, xtordsmire, another, probably the 
female, had previously been killed near the same spot. 
‘They live on sterile sandy plains, and run with great 
speed, seldom taking wing; ready to hide themselves on the 
slightest appearance of danger, and are found with difficulty 
among the herbage under which they conceal themselves.’ 
They are said not to go in flocks, to lie close, and rarely to 
rise a second time if once put up. 
They feed on grain and seeds, and swallow some gravel to 
aid the digestion of their food. 
Male; length, about six inches; bill, light yellowish brown, 
the tip still paler; iris, hazel. Head on the sides, dull brown, 
speckled with buff; on the crown, dark yellowish brown, with 
a lighter streak down the middle, the feathers tipped with 
rufous—a sort of ‘feather in its cap;’ neck on the back and 
